States to boost international protection for people fleeing disasters


  • World
  • Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments of 110 nations have promised to beef up action to help people forced to leave their homes and cross borders because of natural disasters - and to take steps to prevent them having to flee in the first place.

Ministers and other officials adopted a non-binding "agenda" in Geneva on Tuesday to protect those displaced to other countries by earthquakes, volcanoes and climate-linked hazards such as floods, storms, droughts and rising seas.

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